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Robert S. Miller, MD, FACP, FASCO

Latest:

CancerLinQ - ASCO's Rapid Learning System to Improve Quality and Personalize Insights

CancerLinQ is a big data platform developed by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) that aggregates clinical data from electronic health records for quality benchmarking and hypothesis generation. Such observational data can complement traditional evidence but must be used with caution.




Berhanu Alemayehu, DrPH, MS

Latest:

Costs Associated With Long-Acting Insulin Analogues in Patients With Diabetes

Findings from a literature review indicate that overall costs of long-acting insulin analogues are not significantly different from those of intermediate-acting human insulin and oral antidiabetic agents.


Margaret Shepherd, RPh, FAHM

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Collaborative DTM Reduces Hospitalization and Healthcare Costs in Patients With Diabetes Treated With Polypharmacy

Drug therapy management implementation in 2 health plans resulted in significant cost savings and modest to significant reductions in emergency department visits and inpatient admissions among patients with diabetes.


Ateev Mehrotra, MD

Latest:

Paying for Telemedicine

With effective methods of promoting telemedicine yet to be established, new risk-based payment models offer the greatest potential for telemedicine's effective and efficient use.


Anil Aranha, PhD

Latest:

Health Literacy and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Among the Elderly: A Study From a Patient-Centered Medical Home

A study to determine the health literacy of elderly patients and establish whether an association exists between health literacy and cardiovascular disease risk factors.



Asha B. McClurg, BA

Latest:

Tracking Spending Among Commercially Insured Beneficiaries Using a Distributed Data Model

The authors demonstrate the utility of distributed data models for reporting of local trends and variation in utilization, pricing, and spending for commercially insured beneficiaries.


Rei-Ming Chen, PhD

Latest:

How Comorbidities and Preoperative Expenditures Correlate With Postoperative Adverse Outcomes

Adjusting for patients' covariates, postoperative complications and mortality among geriatric surgical patients exhibited an age-dependent, illness-related, and preoperative medical expense“associated pattern under universal healthcare coverage.


Angela Eng Jeong, PharmD

Latest:

Impact of Switching Analogue Insulin to Human Insulin in Diabetes

Converting from analogue insulin to human insulin is associated with a clinical insignificant increase in glycated hemoglobin of 0.16% but with improved insulin adherence.


C.C. Braspenning, PhD

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Case-Mix Adjustment for Diabetes Indicators: A Systematic Review

A systematic review of the impact and rationale for the selection of adjustment factors (case-mix factors) used to describe performance in diabetes care.



Frank Koen, RPh

Latest:

A Descriptive Study of Patients Receiving Foundational Financial Assistance Through Local Specialty Pharmacies

Local specialty pharmacies collaborated with a charitable assistance organization to provide a safety net and to facilitate care for patients with chronic illnesses, allowing them to focus on receiving and adhering to medication, rather than on financial toxicity.


Pieter van den Hombergh, MD, PhD

Latest:

Shifting Cardiovascular Care to Nurses Results in Structured Chronic Care

This study sought to explore if shifting care to nurses in cardiovascular risk management in primary care is a key to more structured chronic care.



Jason Buxbaum, MHSA

Latest:

Using Clinically Nuanced Cost Sharing to Enhance Consumer Access to Specialty Medications

In conjunction with provider-oriented payment reform, tools like VBID that change the focus from how much to how well we spend our healthcare dollars.




Cornelia Mahler, RN, MA, PhD

Latest:

Primary Care Physicians' Experiences With Case Finding for Practice-Based Care Management

Criteria used by primary care physicians to select patients for practice-based care management programs were explored in a qualitative study.


David J. Harrison, PhD

Latest:

Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drug Initiation Among Patients Newly Diagnosed With Rheumatoid Arthritis

Only slightly more than half of patients with newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis initiated therapy within 1 year.




James L. Weese, MD, FACS

Latest:

Implementing an Oncology Precision Medicine Clinic in a Large Community Health System

Precision medicine is increasingly being utilized in oncology. Aurora Health Care has implemented Syapse software to integrate molecular data into the electronic health record to accommodate precision medicine findings.






Hanna E. Bloomfield, MD, MPH

Latest:

Screening Electronic Veterans' Health Records for Medication Discontinuation

Many patients stop taking medications for chronic conditions, thereby reducing the effectiveness of healthcare. An attempt to screen electronic VA healthcare records to identify patients as they discontinued a medication was not an efficient approach to this problem.


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